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macedonia | d |

As an adjective macedonia

is .

As a letter d is

the fourth letter of the.

As a numeral d is

cardinal number five hundred (500).

As a symbol d is

deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.

macedonia

English

(wikipedia Macedonia) (Macedonia naming dispute)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • An ancient Greek kingdom, located to the north of Thessaly, comprising of the Greek city of Thessaloniki and its surroundings.
  • The Republic of Macedonia, a country in Europe which is sometimes referred to elliptically (by the UN and others, pending the outcome of a dispute between Macedonia and Greece) as ‘the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia’.
  • The largest and second-most populous region of Greece, comprising the regions of West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and East Macedonia and Thrace.
  • A modern geographical region which includes the republic of Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia and a bit of Bulgaria.
  • The part of that region which is in south-western Bulgaria.
  • Derived terms

    * Macedonian

    See also

    * * Skopje * West Macedonia * Central Macedonia * East Macedonia and Thrace * FYROM * Republic of Macedonia * * Pirin Macedonia * Vardar Macedonia * (Republic of Macedonia) * English words suffixed with -ia ----

    d

    Translingual

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    Etymology 1

    Modification of capital letter D, from (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The fourth letter of the .
  • Usage notes

    The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the (.

    See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or notch.

    Alternative forms

    * D,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number five hundred (500).
  • Usage notes
    With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).
    See also
    * Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *

    Etymology 3

    Symbol

    (Voiced alveolar plosive) (head)
  • the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
  • voiced alveolar plosive
  • See also

    * (mathematics) {{Letter , page=D , NATO=Delta , Morse=-·· , Character=D4 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d ----